{"id":12037,"date":"2020-04-13T15:23:06","date_gmt":"2020-04-13T19:23:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12037"},"modified":"2020-04-13T15:23:06","modified_gmt":"2020-04-13T19:23:06","slug":"mcconnell-trump-is-nuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12037","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Trump is &#8216;nuts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2020\/04\/20\/how-mitch-mcconnell-became-trumps-enabler-in-chief\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Yorker<\/a><\/i> has a profile of Mitch McConnell that is not behind a paywall and <i><u>definitely<\/u><\/i> is worth a read.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Although the two men almost always support each other in public, several members of McConnell\u2019s innermost circle told me that in private things are quite different. They say that behind Trump\u2019s back McConnell has called the President \u201cnuts,\u201d and made clear that he considers himself smarter than Trump, and that he \u201ccan\u2019t stand him.\u201d (A spokesman for McConnell, who declined to be interviewed, denies this.) According to one such acquaintance, McConnell said that Trump resembles a politician he loathes: Roy Moore, the demagogic former chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court, whose 2017 campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat was upended by allegations that he\u2019d preyed on teen-age girls. (Moore denies them.) \u201cThey\u2019re so much alike,\u201d McConnell told the acquaintance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Trump is a cheap, ignorant demagogue, and he soils everything and everybody he touches.  McConnell is scarcely any better; he is cynical and opportunistic, but at least knows how to behave in polite company.  They deserve each other.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Yorker has a profile of Mitch McConnell that is not behind a paywall and definitely is worth a read. Although the two men almost always support each other in public, several members of McConnell\u2019s innermost circle told me &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/?p=12037\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12037"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12038,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12037\/revisions\/12038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bobfelton.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}